Thanks pg!

In the time you must have been writing this, I developed a solution. I discovered that the sequential limitation was avoidable; that is: "serverX+1" did not have to follow "serverX".

So I wrote this:

use strict;
use warnings;
# use re "debug";

my $file = shift @ARGV || die "No file name given!\n";
my $server = shift @ARGV;
my $output = shift @ARGV;

open(IN, "$file") or die "Unable to open file\n";

undef $/;
my $content = <IN>; 

$content =~ s/ ^\[server(\d)\] .*? servername\s=\s$server .*? \[server
+\d\]$/\[server$1\]/msxi

close(IN);
open(OUT, ">$output");

print OUT $content;

close(OUT);
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This only removes one server entry, but it will be easy enough to throw a foreach loop around it.

Thanks again for the help!

Cheers,
ibanix $ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;